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Latest comment: 3 years ago by Equinox in topic Possible missing obsolete slang sense
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Possible missing obsolete slang sense

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John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) defines piper as "a person employed by an omnibus proprietor to act as a spy on the conductor". Couldn't find uses in Google Books. Equinox 00:59, 19 April 2021 (UTC)Reply